Sanjay,
In particular the 10GBASE-T Task Force
will entertain technical presentations (Proposals) during a
number of interim (e.g. January, April, May) and plenary
(March, July) meetings that form the baseline set of presentations
(technically agreed upon material, 75% or better by TF vote). These
presentations typically find their way into a "Blue
Book" that in the past has been published by a Technical Alliance.
- These agreed upon proposals will be
incorporated in the Draft 1.0 of the "10GBASE-T Task
Force Proposed Standard". They are the foundation of
the 10GBASE-T standard. Once incorporated into the draft standard it
will be very difficult to remove them, however another TF vote of
75% or greater can alter or remove any portion of the evolving draft
standard.
The 0.9 draft is just an internal draft
for TF edification; it's an aid to get D1.0 done on time - we'll
capture as much agreed upon material as possible in D0.9 in an attempt to lock
down the non-debatable material.
As far as the "Last Technical
Proposal" for D1.0 ONLY I think you
have a point here, that would most likely be presented during
the July 2004 Plenary meeting, not after the July meeting. The actual
draft 1.0 would be created after the July 2004 plenary meeting and it would
incorporate all technical changes that were agreed upon up to the close of
the July 2004 plenary meeting. Closure of some editorials may slip
outside this July meeting; the various editors will resolve
them. We would use draft 1.0 during our 2004 September
interim; this is where the fun starts managing the 10GBASE-T
comment database.
As for the "LAST Technical
Change" just prior to the
2005 July plenary (this is most likely during the 2005 May interim) think
of this as our current stake in the
ground for final closure of the technical content for the
standard. After this point in time the TF is in a FIX IT mode, not allowing
feature creep to kill the standards progress during the final 1-year stretch
to the finish line where the standard is finished from a TF
perspective.
I hope this helps. We're going into a 6-month
phase now of a LOT of technical work is ahead of us. Having a high focused and
managed "10GBT Technical Alliance" would have helped
but there was no interest in forming this technical forum so we'll have to do
all this work within the IEEE venues. I'm sure we'll have a number of
volunteers to host non-IEEE sessions at their respective company locations as
an alternative to a well managed technical alliance.
Cheers,
-
Jeff Warren (10GBT SG Secretary)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 6:44
PM
Subject: Clarification on minutes
Brad,
Jeff,
The minutes of
the Albuquerque meeting that have been posted have items on the time line
(page 5) that seem inconsistent with the guidelines present in Brad's
overview presentation. See figure from Brad's presentation slide
13:
This shows that
a proposal has been selected by the task force before Draft
1.0.
The minutes,
however, show on page 5 that the last technical proposal can
come in after the July meeting after draft 1.0 is
ready.
Can you clarify?
Thanks,
Sanjay Kasturia
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